Vote on European Software Patents delayed
Seems like the protests worked: The European Parliament decided not to vote on the draft on software patents in Europe on September 1. Due to the fact that several MEPs requested more time for discussion, the vote will be held in the week September 22 to September 26 or later.
Heise has the full story (in German). Between 1500 to 2000 websites (among them those of software projects like
KDE or
Gimp) in Europe temporarily closed this Wednesday in order to protest against the danger of software patents.
Posted by jens at August 29, 2003 04:03 PM
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